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Free to start, built for short-term rental hosts

One QR code. Every answer your guests need.

Guests scan the sticker in your rental and find the WiFi, check-in steps and parking on their own phone, in their own language. No app to install, and the late-night questions stop.

Start free, 1 property foreverRead a real guest manual
Reads in 12 languages·No app for guests·Print once, never reprint·No per-guest fees

Or open a real one

  • Urban studio

    Alfama, Lisbon

  • Vacation cabin

    Black Forest, Germany

  • Beachfront villa

    Camps Bay, Cape Town

Each tile opens a real, full manual. No signup, no email.

A typical Friday night

Two kinds of weekend.

Pick the one you’d rather have. That’s all this app is for.

Without staymanual23:14 Friday

Phone buzzes for the third time tonight.

  • Hi, sorry to bother you, but the WiFi password isn't working?
  • Where do I park? The street's full.
  • Hi! What time is checkout again?
  • My key won't go in. Are you up?

You’re not on duty. You’re just always on call.

With staymanual23:14 Friday

Phone is on do-not-disturb. Guest just walked in.

  • Scans the QR by the kitchen counter.
  • WiFi password copied with one tap.
  • Parking, check-in, lockbox: all already there.
  • If they really need a person, Call Host routes to the night cover, not you.

You actually get to be off duty.

Just shipped

Three new ways to make hosting easier.

A live channel for time-sensitive notes. A digital guest book that gets read. Optional private mode for code-heavy manuals.

A live channel

Tell every guest who’s arriving today, in one line.

Pin a short note to the top of your guide: “plumber arriving 9am tomorrow”, “welcome basket on the kitchen counter”, “WiFi router being replaced today”. Edit it from your phone, schedule it to clear itself, and every guest who scans the QR sees it the moment they arrive.

Saves the back-and-forth when something changes mid-stay.

How announcements work
A digital guest book

Arrivals, departures, and notes, without a single text.

Guests tap to check in on arrival and tap again on the way out (no account, no email, just a hello and a goodbye), and they can leave you a note any time during their stay. Every entry lands in your dashboard. The kind ones, you publish for the next guest with one tap. The unkind ones never see daylight.

Two messages a stay you stop having to send.

How digital check-in works
Private mode

Lock the guide with a 4-8 digit code only your guests get.

Off by default. Switch it on when your manual carries lockbox codes, gate codes, or alarm codes you’d rather not have on a public web page. Send the code via WhatsApp; guests enter it once and their phone remembers for the rest of the stay.

The right answer for gated estates and code-heavy manuals.

When to lock, when not to

No upgrade needed. Every plan, including Free, has all three.

For hosts & guests

Built to take the busywork off your plate.

Ten things you stop doing the moment a guest scans your QR, plus what your guests get without having to ask.

One QR. Every answer.

Print one code, stick it on the kitchen counter, never reprint again. Guests scan and the answer is in their hand in three taps.

Always reach the right person

Set who's on call when. Daytime to your day manager, evenings to night cover, weekends to a co-host. Guests tap Call Host and reach whoever's actually on duty, never your own mobile at 3am.

See it before your guests do

Preview every manual exactly the way a guest will: phone view, your brand, your photos, your videos. Tweak the bits that don't read right, then publish when it feels good, not before.

Photos, captions, your brand

Show the stove, the lockbox, the gate that sticks, captioned the way you'd say it. Match the rest to your property too: brand colour, logo, cover photo treatment, optional welcome splash. It feels like your place, not a generic web page.

Twelve languages, instant

Guests read the manual in their own language with one tap. Built in, with no install, no setup, no plugin to maintain. Works on every property, every section.

Turn happy stays into reviews

Paste your Airbnb / Vrbo / Booking.com / Google review URL once on the editor. Guests see a one-tap “Leave a review on Airbnb” at the bottom of their guide, branded automatically to wherever they booked you, so the platform they already have an account on is the platform they review you on.

Your bio, only if you choose

Off by default. Flip a switch and guests see your name, where you're based, your response-time hint, and a sentence in your own voice. The kind of small trust signal that warms up first messages. Leave it off and there's no host card at all; you stay completely anonymous.

See what's landing, and what isn't

Your dashboard shows scan counts, which sections guests open most, the quiet thumbs-up or thumbs-down they leave on each, and the top countries + devices reading you. Rewrite the paragraphs that aren't working; double down on the ones that are.

Print-ready QR. Updates itself.

Download a print-ready A4 sheet for the kitchen counter, with no design app, no resizing, no app store. Change the WiFi password later and every printed QR updates instantly. Your old codes never go stale.

Print the whole manual as a PDF

One tap and the full guide downloads as a print-ready PDF: your cover photo, your logo, every section with photos, page numbers, and the QR on the front page. Drop it in a binder on the kitchen counter for guests who'd rather read paper than scan.

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The standout feature

Your phone stays quiet after hours.

Call Host routes guests to whoever's actually on duty right now: your day manager, your night cover, or your weekend co-host. Never your bedside table.

  • Time-aware contact routing

    A button that knows what day it is and who’s on. After-hours questions go to the night cover, not your bedside table.

  • Multi-contact roster

    Add up to a handful of people: owner, manager, cleaner, building security. Each gets their own days and hours.

  • Drag priority

    Drag a contact above yourself and that person picks up first; you become the backup. Take yourself off the rota for a holiday.

  • Coverage-gap warnings

    Before you publish, we tell you if any hour of the week has no one on duty. No “aha” moment for the guest at 03:00.

Sample roster

MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Day08–18
Eve18–23
Night23–08
Day managerNight cover

See the full breakdown on the features page →

Show, don't write

A thirty-second video beats a three-hundred-word paragraph.

Film it once on your phone, held upright, with no editing or soundtrack, then drop it into any section. Guests press play and get it, whatever language they speak.

Some things are just easier to show than write: the washing machine with the German dial, the TV remote that needs three button presses, the gate that sticks unless you lift it. Film those.

  • Photos with captions

    Show the stove, the lockbox, the gate that sticks. Caption each photo the way you’d explain it. Captions translate; the photo itself works in any language.

  • 30-second vertical videos

    Film the dishwasher cycle on your phone, drop it into the section. Guests press play and get it. No translation needed for hands pressing buttons.

  • Passwords stay readable in every language

    When a guest switches the manual to Japanese, the WiFi password and lockbox codes are protected from being “translated” into something useless. They stay exactly as you typed them.

See examples on the features page →

How it works

Three small steps. Years of repetitive messages, gone.

Add your property, fill in templates that come with the right blanks, print one QR.

  1. 01

    Add your property

    Name, web address, time zone. Pick which of 18 ready-made sections fit your property (ten preselected: WiFi, check-in, house rules, local tips). Add your own custom sections with their own titles and icons. Drag to reorder. No blank page, just scaffolding.

  2. 02

    Write, photograph, caption

    Each section comes with the right templates. WiFi has a network-and-password block, Check-in has lockbox + arrival steps. You fill in the blanks instead of staring at one. Add photos with captions, drop a Google Maps link to the bakery, let your tone come through.

  3. 03

    Print one QR, done

    Stick it on the kitchen counter. Guests scan, the manual loads in their language, and your old codes never go stale.

Honest answers

The three questions hosts always start with.

What it costs, whether guests need an app, and how non-English guests read it.

What does it cost?
Free for 1 property, every feature, no card on file. Solo $15/mo for 2-5 properties. Studio $39/mo for 6-15. Portfolio $99/mo for 16-50. Above 50, email support@staymanual.app. Full breakdown on the pricing page.
Will my guests have to install an app?
No. They scan the QR with their phone's camera. The manual loads in their browser like any web page, and works on every iPhone and Android, no install, no account, no captive portal.
What about non-English guests?
One tap and the whole manual translates into 12 languages. WiFi passwords, addresses, and codes stay in their original form so they still work.
Read the full guide for hosts

18

starter sections, ready to fill

$0

to start, no card needed

12

languages, instant

$1,000+

saved a year at 10 properties

See it for yourself

Three quick reads. Five more on the demo page.

Tap into a real manual, phone in hand, the way a guest would the moment they walk in.

Urban studio

Casa Lisboa

Alfama, Lisbon · 2 guests

A small studio in old Lisbon, with everything a guest needs to feel at home from the first scan.

Read the manual
Vacation cabin

Schwarzwald Lodge

Black Forest, Germany · 6 guests

Wood stove, hot tub, the right firewood pile. The things hosts forget to write down until 11pm on a guest's first night.

Read the manual
Beachfront villa

Atlantic House

Camps Bay, Cape Town · 8 guests

Pool rules, gate codes, tide times. The details that make or break a beach stay.

Read the manual
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Pricing

Free for 1. $15 to $99 a month for 2 to 50 properties.

Every feature on every plan. Monthly billing only. No per-property fees, no per-guest fees, no card to start. Multi-property hosts typically save thousands per year vs. per-property tools.

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Your next guest is already wondering about the WiFi.

Scan any staymanual QR, on the front door, the fridge, the welcome binder, and this is what loads. Three taps to the answer. No app store, no account, no waiting on you.

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